George Washington Cable (12 October, 1844 – 31 January, 1925) was a novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native Louisiana. In his sense of the continuing influence of the dead upon the living, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner.

Biography

Cable was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. At the end of the war in 1865 he went into journalism, writing for the New Orleans Picayune where he would remain through 1879. By that time he was a well established writer. His sympathy for civil rights and antipathy towards the harsh racism of the era showed in his writings, which earned him resentment by many white southerners. He moved to Massachusetts in 1884. He became friends with Mark Twain, and the two writers did speaking tours together.

Cable died in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

Works

His most important works are Old Creole Days , The Grandissimes , and Madame Delphine .

External links

• Cable resources page on Gonzaga.edu